My interiors life: weaned on the small screen
My formative years and future
tastes in all things were formed by
1950s and 1960s television,
The devils that made me a dandy
Joseph Connolly’s enduring passion for sartorial splendour was driven by a childhood addiction to the glamour of TV
All the things I have never done…
Joseph Connolly has never ridden a bike, drunk a pint of biiter or had a curry. Can you match his epic non-achievements?
Very Amis, very Hampstead
Joseph Connolly treasures his friendship with his literary hero
Goodbye to all that stuff
We used to love filling our homes with possessions. Now, less is more — indeed, it’s everything
Not tickety-boo
Joseph Connolly had never suffered a day’s illness — until he was felled by a “very unglamorous stroke”
Days in the life of the Fab Four
Joseph Connolly reviews One Two Three Four: The Beatles in Time, by Craig Brown
Filthy shades of grey
Why do people — and men in particular — dress so vilely now?
For Heaven’s sake, not Robert Jenrick
He’s the ideal candidate if you want the Conservatives to lose
The expensive problem with the minimum wage
Higher wages for some, perhaps, but joblessness for others
Thou shalt not pray?
The British state is ruthlessly prosecuting thoughtcrime
Death by a thousand cuts
The near-invisibility of the Proms on BBC TV is a symptom of the collapse of public service broadcasting in Britain
Sectarianism contra socialism
How did “left-wing” MPs end up voting for the VAT exemption for private schools?
Booze or muse?
Composers have been no slouches when it comes to the sauce
Dissolve the hotbeds of wokery
Failing universities should go the way of the monasteries under Henry VIII
Stolen moments
Smoking is a precious social currency in a fast atomising world
Borientalism
Madama Butterfly, Opera Ballet Flanders, Antwerp
International Society for Libdem Consciousness
It’s a cult, but at least it’s one of the cheerful ones
War, peace and city streets
How English towns survived the Blitz and entered the modern world
